Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 14
We will set you free and let you go home, if you will agree to do as we say."
Who acts: We, you · What happens: set, let, go, agree, do, say · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Regulus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | aux |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 set | obj |
| 5 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 set | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 let | cc |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 set | conj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 agree | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 agree | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 agree | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 agree | aux |
| 15 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 agree | xcomp |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 say | mark |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 say | nsubj |
| 20 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | future | We | you | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient you=Result | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | We not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | you not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | agree speech: agree a condition, not said to happen | future | you | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present | we | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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